Vector PDF drawings to DWG and DXF, in your browser
- Vector PDFs only: drawings saved or printed to PDF from CAD, drawing or design software. A scanned page, a picture of a drawing, is named as scanned and not converted.
- Your drawings never leave your computer. They are read and converted in this page. Nothing of them is sent to us or to anyone else. We only count, per day, how many pages were previewed, downloaded free and found scanned, with no identifier and no cookie.
- Free here: drop one or many PDFs, see every page converted with its layers and counts, and download the first page of each file as DWG or DXF, to open in your own CAD software before you pay.
- $150 once buys the full converter as one file to keep. It runs offline in your web browser, with no install and no limit on pages or files, and saves many pages at once as one ZIP. Tested in Chromium (the engine of Chrome and Edge), Firefox and WebKit (the engine of Safari), on Linux. Nothing renews. A full refund if you ask within 30 days.
- DWG is written in the AutoCAD 2018 format. If you open a DWG file from this converter in AutoCAD, it shows its standard “Non-Autodesk DWG” notice: the file was not saved by software developed or licensed by Autodesk.
- PDF Drawing Converter is not affiliated with Autodesk. AutoCAD is a trademark of Autodesk, Inc.
- Check a converted drawing before you cut or build from it.
The full converter: $150.00, paid once (plus sales tax where it applies).
After payment you get a link, on screen and by email, that downloads the converter: one HTML file, about 3 MB. Save it and open it in your browser; it needs no install, no account and no network, and keeps working without this site. No updates or service are included. Refunds · Terms
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1:1 writes the paper size. With a scale such as 1:50, or 1/4" = 1'-0", coordinates are written in real units, so a length measured in CAD reads the true size.
What is kept, and what is not
Kept: lines, polylines, arcs and circles, curves, filled areas (as solid hatches), colours and line widths, text that is real text in the PDF (with its position, height and rotation), and layers: the PDF's own layers when it has them, otherwise one layer per colour.
Not done:
- scanned pages are not traced, and pictures inside a vector page are left out (the page says how many);
- text the PDF draws as lines, as CAD's SHX fonts often are, stays lines; when the PDF also carries an invisible copy of that text (for searching), the copy is written as text on a layer that is turned off,
PDF-INVISIBLE-TEXT; - dimensions come out as lines and text, not as dimension entities;
- hatching the PDF draws as ordinary lines stays lines, but a PDF pattern fill (a hatch the PDF repeats as a pattern) is left out, and the page says how many; repeated symbols are not made into blocks;
- dashed lines come out solid;
- what a PDF hides with a clipping path is cut away from lines, curves and filled areas, except a filled area crossing a clip that is not a rectangle: that one is kept whole, and the page says how many;
- a line of text is left out only when both of its ends lie outside a clip, so text partly hidden by one comes out whole; text that a PDF uses as a clipping path does not clip.